Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee Report to AdCom Chuck Melcher July 30, 2011

2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, & 18 th International Workshop on Room- Temperature Semiconductor Detectors Valencia, Spain

Future NSS-MIC Conferences 2011: Valencia; David Townsend 2012: Anaheim; Tom Lewellen 2013: Seoul; Hee Joung Kim 2014: Seattle; Tony Lavietes 2015: Strasbourg, Liverpool ???

Technical Co-Sponsor: ANIMMA 2011 June 6-9, 2011 in Ghent, Belgium Patrick Le Du was very active in the organization of the conference as well as in the preparation of the MOU.

Co-Sponsor: SORMA 2012 Expecting 600 attendees which presents a space issue Not enough hotel space in Berkeley due to conflict with another event Will be held in the Oakland Marriott City Center May 14-18, 2012 General Chair: Jasmina Vujic, Chairman of the Nuclear Engineering Department at UC Berkeley Assistant General Chair: Jim Siegrist, Associate Laboratory Director for General Sciences (Physics, Nuclear Science, Accelerator/Fusion, and Engineering) at LBNL Several members of the organizing committee have strong experience from the 2008 SORMA

Technical Co-Sponsor: 3rd PLIM – 2012 Third International Symposium on Nuclear Power Plant life Management for Long Term Operation Salt Lake City, Utah, USA May 13/14 – May 18, 2012

Third International Symposium on Nuclear Power Plant life Management for Long Term Operation Briefing IAEA, February 10, 2011 Leonard J Bond, PNNL Gene Carpenter, NRC Richard Reister, DOE-NE

Technical Co-Sponsor: SCINT 2011 General Chair: Rainer Novotny Organizing Committee –Paul Lecoq –Bill Moses –Chuck Melcher –Alex Gektin

Valentin T. Jordanov Fund Additional donations have increased the fund balance to $215K Distributions have been doubled to $7200 per year starting in 2011 Supports attendance at the Nuclear Science Symposium by young researchers